Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIADUMINIUS, by PIERRE BENOIT First Line: The mournful majesty of human greatness Last Line: In the old house to which one will return. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Monuments | ||||||||
The mournful majesty of human greatness, Monument of desires, kisses, tears, What name better than yours, Diaduminius, Gathers its pride into a symbol for the years? For you were the strange and silent Cæsar Who leaned at night upon the terraces of flame When the swift storm over the urns' black waters With blue metallic lightnings came. And who that has known your story now can say: "Live, thrust skyward still more proud and bold Happiness is with the women of one's desire, In a marble palace, beside a sceptre of gold"? It lies, O Cæsar, near an old bell-tower, With sapphires strewn in a rippling burn, In an old garden flowered with young roses, In the old house to which one will return. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRO PATRIA by CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON CHURCH MONUMENTS by GEORGE HERBERT LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN by PATRICK KAVANAGH FOR THE UNION DEAD by ROBERT LOWELL ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS by W. T. ADAMS INSCRIPTIONS: 4 by MARK AKENSIDE EUMARES by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS |
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